80 gig enough on the long term?

I am looking to buy an ssd hard drive but my budget is a bit low,

With the service pack and all the space windows takes with times, do you think I will be in trouble in 1 or 2 years?

I do a bit of gamings, video download and etc...

 

If you save a lot of videos, then I'd advise getting an external drive to store them on. Videos can take up a lot of room.

 

Laptop magazine did some calculations here: http://www.laptopmag.com/laptopcomponents/storage.aspx

Your needs could be different. But I figure in a couple years, bigger SSDs will be available cheaply.

 

TBH, for a single drive notebook, unless you're doing mainly rudimenatary desktop tasks, it's best to go with a higer capacity hard drive. Although from what I've seen 80GB costs almost as much as a 128GB.

With a Windows 7 install, assuming you have other apps like Office installed, page file, hibernate file, and system restore, that is likely to take up to 20GB alone. Then take into account video files, probably 500MB-1GB each and games at typically 5-10GB each, you better not expect to install more than a couple games at a time.

SSD's at the moment are great as a system drive coupled with a hard drive for applications, games, and media storage.

Depends on what you do and your needs. I do know a couple people that only have one game installed and only play that one game, it's not a big deal.

If you have room for two drives, then an SSD plus a hard drive isn't a bad way to go. Just keep your pertinent data on your SSD since it's the most rugged.

 

I couldn't live with only 80GB.
I installed Win 7x64 on a 40GB big partition. At the moment it uses, with swap file and hibernation file (together 7GB) turned on, 23GB.
There are already a few programs installed, like Adobe PS, Corel Draw, Office 2010, and other smaller programs. However, I still have to install a few larger programs, like MikTeX, matlab and others, so I expect that it needs good 30GB in the end, system + programs.

Now add three games with 15GB or more, your personal data with 10GB or more, music and movies +10GB and the HDD is very fast full.

 

i could live without problems with a 32gb ssd for over half a year.

but the biggest gain is, i have a windows home server, which allows me to store all bigger stuff like movies on it. nowadays, i have systems with 60gb to 160gb, none even close to get filled.

but other than movies, games eat up much storage. so there could be need for more than 80gb, then.

 

Let me add a usefull link to this:
http://forum.notebookreview.com/showthread.php?p=4936086